8.1 Publications
Over the period 1996-2010, Evaggelismos Hospital in Athens had the greatest volume of publications consistently across the Category "Public Health Institutions". In terms of publication activity, the relative performance of institutions in this category varied (Figure 8.1.1)- with the exception of Evaggelismos-.
Figure 8.1.2 presents the number of publications and its rate of change for each of the 16 Health Institutions from 1996 to 2010.
Rate of change: 1+[(number of publications in year "n" - number of publications in year "n-1") / number of publications in year "n-1"]. The rate is 1, if the number of publications is the same accross the years compared.
Focusing on the latest 5-year period 2006-2010, Figure 8.1.3 presents the number of publications per each of the 16 Health Institutions, as well as for each institution’s share of publications in the category “Public Health Institutions”. The “Evaggelismos Hospital of Athens” /EVAGGELISMOS had 497 publications and a share of 8.7%. This was followed by the "Aghia Sophia" Children’s Hospital/AGHIA SOPHIA with 378 publications and a share of 6.6%, the “Hospitals supervised by the Ministry of National Defense” /MOD HOSPITALS with 372 publications and a share of 6.5%, the IPPOKRATEIO General Hospital of Athens/IPPOKRATEIO ATHENS with 333 publications and a share of 5.9%, the IPPOKRATEIO General Hospital of Thessaloniki /IPPOKRATEIO THESSALONIKI with 297 publications and a share of 5.2%, and then the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center/O.C.S.C. with 283 publications and a share of 5.0%. The share for the rest institutions accounted for less than 5% of publications in the category.
